Are you working on an indie game too?

The death of the AAA industry doesn't mean the death of the whole industry.

It's stunning how 1 or 2 dev (indie dev) can make games better then 100 (AAA studio)

I think the fall of AAA is a good thing. People will realize that too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the soup, that the big money surrounding games is exactly what is harmful to it, that it is an intellectual sector involving computer science and interaction and not a thespian sector involving acting and theater. Each can lend to and learn from the other, but they are distinct. If we get away from the consulting firms and large studio format then people with talent will find a means to create personal capital rather than corporate capital.

We have a chance, but studios need to have passion, not greed

I think it’s awesome that you’re doing this reflection on your work and paying attention to your audience’s criticism. Talking about how gaming companies fail to listen to their audience is one thing but learning from their mistakes and avoiding them is another.

As a 52 year old gamer i love Indie games and play them a lot on Xbox. Not bought a AAA game in over a decade.

Indie games are just so fun and sweet to play. The devs are always passionate about their games and it shows with their creativity. By the way, keep the stache going strong, it looks solid!!

To revive the gaming industry, game companies need to stop releasing live service games

Part of the reason I subscribed was because you unveiled a larger part of the video game industry than I initially realized (companies, business, investing, economics, loss leaders, IP, etc...). I've always wanted to be an indie game developer since childhood, but I know now (in part because of this channel) the sheer amount of work and interdisciplinary skills necessary to accomplish such a feat, especially the marketing and money side of things. So, I appreciate some of the less indie-related content you put out :)

Facts. I’ve said before a video game crash is coming and it’s inevitable. However, unlike the 80’s, it’s only going to be a AAA crash. Indies, AA, and Nintendo will be just fine and will thrive.

I couldn't agree more. It's time for creative people to create again, it's an exciting time.

Beautiful moustache keep it up and the good work

You shouldn't process how crazy it is that you "can make" millions of dollars, because the odds are higher for you to survive a plane crash.

gaming future is small indie devs, it's just the mainstream normies that cares about Quadruple A titles.

It's not only indie games that can thrive now, that AAA (or AAAA 🙂) games are failing. AA games are coming back too, if I'm not mistaken. I think AA and indie games have to and can better cater to the players and their wishes.

I work for team asobi the Astro bot devs and I’m making Astro bot and it’s going so well

Gaming Is having an all time high, games are getting better every generation

Indie games brought back my joy and love to games.

We need to take the concept of Kickstarter and evolve to a new model of community investment. The core problem is with the up front money it takes; it puts a publisher, or a parent company, or some type of investor ABOVE the devs in terms of what the game is and how it is marketed. We end up PAYING for these games, and more than the cost it took to make (otherwise there would have been no profits), so there is no reason we couldn't take that money instead and invest it, leading to the potential for profits and 100% aligning the interests of players and developers. If you screw over your players, you lose your funding and fail... as you should. It also means better pay and working conditions for devs.

We need more games like Stellar Blade

Your videos give me motivation to keep going, making games is super cool and all, but its more thinking about it that's exciting, actually doing it is very hard work over a long periods of time the desire fades. For me I've played games for decades and they got worse with either balancing to sell skins, pay to win, or been made by corporations for making the most money possible, so if you want something right, you got to do it yourself, a year and a half later got my first launch! I agree with everything you've said, AAA is shooting themselves in the foot and indie is the future for sure, just marketing is troublesome, If there's one way to help indies is to help promote. Your game looks sick and thanks for your content.

I've felt positive about indie games since the Xbox Live Arcade days. It's just gotten better since. Despite my never releasing a game, I have tried on & off for over a decade to make one but always ran into scope issues. The struggle of what I could make vs what I wanted to make within a certain time frame. I think one of the most powerful things that big games have lost sight of is iteration. Making sequels allows studios & indie devs alike to learn & grow with each release. I'll get back to making games again soon, but this time I'm older & wiser with better tools & an understanding of what I can make within the time I'm willing to give myself. Side note, Pepper Grinder is currently my favorite game I've played this year.

It is not as simple as indie vs AAA, you have to consider other factors

Indie devs are all just burnt toaster developers. Good-job on the video and we could not agree more. Real indies will never stop developing, because games are fun to play and make. Triple A keeps shooting themselves in the foot, and cannot walk anymore. Live service games are bullshit also. Check out our debut game and games coming soon, we're real people.

There's so much potential in gaming. Lately I've wished Game Dev's would leave big companies & group together to make passion projects. These big companies need their devs yet they take them for granted, they restrict their creativity. It's just crazy where gaming is at. I feel If you grew up in the 90's, It really felt like the future of gaming was going to be awesome. Gaming wasn't ONLY focused on graphics or the same bland cargo copy game features. Gaming should be focused on satisfying physics effects, fun movement, rag doll effects, games utilizing creative art styles, games had a range of different gameplay modes to play. Creative and fun gameplay mechanics is so much more important compared to "Realism" In my opinion I don't care about 4k resolution or Ray traced reflections, COMPARED to having satisfying damage effects, interactive environments, breakable objects, the ability to climb or play using a stealth approach. These are just random examples. It's important a game has good enemy CPU behavior so you can have fun in single player modes, or have CPU bots in offline modes. Current video games have focused way too much on nitpicking the least important aspects and forgot what parts ACTUALLY make a good game GOOD. It seems they have forgotten how much players enjoy just being able to jump in and start having fun playing a game. It seems like a bunch of game genres have been completely forgotten about.. As well as certain Art styles & certain subject matters. Old school PS1 & N64 style graphics can work, if a creative design is used. I seriously don't know why gaming had to fall into this rut that we are in..? Also: {We have seen that even if companies delay games, it isn't improving the quality of games being released. Which is a sign there is a MUCH DEEPER issue going on with modern games. No excuses, devs used to make great games with much less and they would have given anything to have certain capabilities to utilize that are available today. It just takes actual passion, focus & talent to make great games. Sidenote: It's so crazy how many people are still supporting super mega rich companies putting out unacceptable products.. i don't understand certain people. I don't understand how certain companies can be messing up so badly. It's frustrating that other passionate people are not allowed to make a version of a type of game that we used to have but no longer get anymore.. Yet these huge companies get full control over if an unused game IP gets made & they do everything they can so no other versions of a game idea will ever come out. Even if there's a huge fan base around certain ideas and there's a ton of passionate devs out there dying to make a version of a certain video game idea.. that frustrates me beyond belief}

Love the message. I like where the gaming scene is going.

I really like when you also talk about AAA games and I think that you could continue doing that but trying to understand what made it grate that indie games could also do. Love your videos! Continue to do this incredible job

The Indies will become the new AAA.

don't worry about every once in a while not talking *specifially* about indie games bro, it atracts more people to the channel. I personally think you're doing a great job, love the videos. Here's an idea, I loved the fact that you worked with so many people/companies, maybe make a video correlating this part of your life with going indie? I've no idea how the 'make a game + sell it' equation works Edit: do you livestream on twitch? I'd be great to have a more personal interaction

I'm all for indie. I'm so tired of the first person shooters the big corps are coming out with

Something AAA companies don't realize, is they're paving a rode for much smaller developer's to become even more sustainable with fair priced micro transactions. Helldivers2 is just the first sign, a smaller dev can make an amazing game, and sell some fairly priced add ons, to bolster revenue from fans that want to support them. No man's sky is a live service game with no micro transactions, but still constant updates, game changing updates!

When I was younger I used to go at least once a month to my local game store, trade in and buy a brand new game constantly….. it was like there was a never ending stream of great games ! Now I don’t even pay that much attention to what’s even coming out because nearly everything is a disappointment or broken mess . I’m always playing my Steam backlog or older games I’ve had for years giving them another run . If I buy new games, it’s very rarely AAA ….. like one if that a year, most games are early access or not made from a big dev ……. I just won’t reward big Developers with my money because they suck …… the games are mediocre and they inject real world politics into everything…… and the games never work out the box ! Clearly there are exceptions to the rule but most AAA games suck badly!

I agree with you man and I hope that the video game industry will be at amazing place in the future where video games is a masterpiece just like the other golden age of video games that happen years ago and great video Going Indie :]

The stache like that just screams that the body cam is getting turned off

Channel is good. Videos are good. That Mario video had everything to do with indie games. Teaches current and future indie devs to have principles and values about the IP they are making... and stick to them.

Summer game fest was even swept by an indie game: killer bean

Please do a video covering how Lethal Company getting into Fortnite and the game isn't a year old. It blows my mind...

I’m right there with you man. Just had my first son and can’t wait to show him gaming. I’m so excited for the next generation of innovation coming from the indie space that will enter the cultural zeitgeist as he grows up.

Will you be filming a video of the games you're excited about in the indie space announced this week? It's raining games and I can't keep up. 😊

11 bit studios are pumping bangers

Don't be so hard on yourself, it's okay because you're talking about Nintendo and their way of business. For me it does make sense. Your channel is about Indis but it is logical that you talk about the state of the industry and that means talking about big companies. Honestly, what I like about your channel is your tone, your videos are quality and you have passion in your voice!

Everything hinges on independent developers, but therein also lies the predicament. Indies have the potential to reinvent the industry, but they need to first consolidate themselves and _have the ambition_ to become AAA. Only then will we have studios with not only creativity, but the resources and manpower to make creativity the new standard in the industry.

It's the same story as the film industry and the music industry. People who like money get business degrees and go where the money is and take as much as they can legally get away. Creatives break away and create their own small Studios and when they get successful and old and tired of creating, or they hit hard times and need funding, they sell their studio to the big corp who then rides this new wave creative talent and intellectual property into the ground, and all the creatives leave and go to another small studio and the cycle repeats.

great video! also, I like your mustache, 10/10 mustache

*I've just been playing older games from 10-20 years ago and I'm having a BLAST 🙌 I do intend to script a game one day....something with chatgpt* 👌

You just need to eliminate the greed, and I'm on board, but Tarkov is a prime example of greed being the problem.

Studios are losing their rep, and that's an excellent chance for indie devs like me to bring their best foot forward and steal that big pie slice I'm not even working with my buddies, I'm literally the one and only developer working on my own game, and it's been almost 2 years since I started working on it Is it hard? Yes, yes it's hard, and my game is purely mechanics as we speak, from Crafting to Construction to Ranged, Magic and Melee Attacks, to Skills that you can level up, Quests, Shops, Inventories, Armors, Enemies being your Allies through dialogue invitations, etc, etc, etc... It's been 19 wild months since I started that thing, and there's not a single video online to show what I've been doing just yet But I've been through enough hard stuff that I know I'm not giving up now There's no environment just yet, but coding-wise, it's computationally light and will probably run on even 10-year old hardware at 30FPS (it's being built on a GTX1650 laptop. That's old and weak compared to modern systems). The goal is to make something EVERYONE can enjoy, and have its own Unique twists too (which is also why the graphics are low-poly) Whenever I feel like it's even barely ready, I'll start sharing footage online

Dude has a sick Mustache

For a long time, during the 2010s, I've stopped buying video games, as well as movies and tv shows, as well as music, because....well...much of the medium I have loved from the 1990s and early to mid 2000s....aren't as enjoyable as what I loved 20/25 years ago.....it's sad that nintendo may be the only one to stand out, but they've also are infamous for sending out DMCAs/Copyright claims for properties that they wish to emulate older games on platforms outside of their consoles, yet haven't bothered to let these games be played on their own current selling console, including Gamecube games...which really sucks because there's plethora of older games that can be enjoyed as much as those who grew up playing games before the 2010s and even the 2000s. Heck, Emulation/Retro gaming helped me get over my anger and hatred during 2013/2014, after the boston bombing, and I became a casual played from 2014 onward, with the exception of one or two video games I like to play the most (but only a couple of hours or maybe an hour or less). Either way, I wish you indies ALL the luck you can with making your own IP franchises, as I've been only interested in making franchises in terms of filmmaking, tv shows, and my favorite, music/music videos (and yes, including video games). I do hope that the same creativity, passion, and heart that's done into video games would also be the same for other types of entertainment, including movies. I've been a big music listener for 25 years, but I wish you good luck as well as other future devs out there to create their own franchises that someday will be just as popular as the mainstream Triple A (AAA) companies have done prior to the 2010s.

i can't tell if it's an incorrect focuslength or dirty camera, but whatever it is, it makes your face look weird and distorted, almost AI like

1:11 what is this game?

Wow 😮

I've got an idea for a cool game. wrote a cool story for it. will learn UE5 soon. Wish me luck!

I greatly value the selfless services you want to do for indies, but Id also hope you wouldn't feel like you can't do anything except promote indies. If you're having fun doing crazy stuff, and we're having fun coming along for the ride, that's all that matters.

Since the video game market has become oversaturated, a Spotify-esc model will soon envelop the industry... [indie] devs are desperate to get exposure and they will accept $0.05 per play to get on Gamepass. Gone are the days of "gems" the corporate sector of the game industry will continue to become more crooked, as everyone from Monsanto corporation to the Saudi-investment fund are dumping money into the AAA scene.

I watched the summer games fest. I don't have any hope

I just watched the summer fes and the actual interesting games are just a handful. I want to support indie games, and I do, but some of them are just... ugh.

make a video on hades 2 when you play it, i think its phenomenal and even better than the original

I don't have hope

Every always f forget about nintendo how their AAA and how they put out a lot of good game yet indie is the future its so silly , the take isnt wrong but please put some respect on Nintendo's name

Remember next time that GateKeeping is absolutely necessary.

Just play indie games lol

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No i don't .. To much manipulation to much live service , Greed to much Micro Transactions , battle passes subscriptions ..

Refuse to buy garbage AAA games, simple as that.

451 views in 27 minutes really fell off

Second :D

Indie Games suck too, there's hardly any creativity and most indie games are just copies of retro games or gimick games that are mediocre. Plus with all the new modern tropes being added to future indie games, the use of AI, the future for gaming is anything but positive.

Lol no be realistic

Third :D

Less of the incoherent ramble videos please. You're better than that.

Most indie games suck tbh